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traveling? if you are using america west airlines, bring your food...apparently earlier this year (i didn't pay attention), they eliminated all main cabin food service (not that it was the greatest, but hey it was something)...which would have been a nice item to know before hoping on a flight from arizona to new york over the holidays.
and for those who look at kids on the plane who are screaming...hey, the parents can't help it...yes, this was the case for me this holiday...two solid hours of blood curdling screams from the 1 year old...with staring/glaring eyes from everyone...listen up people...the kid...

so i consider myself a geek...let's get that out in the open (which explains the reason for the random thought that will follow).
i was reading the blog of scott watermasysk and came across this post regarding CommentRSS. it was prompted from him reading a post about comments on blogs and how it becomes increasingly difficult to “keep up” with the conversation:
“One items (among many others) that came up is it is sometimes hard to keep up with secondary discussions (ie, comments) via blogs. Agreed. One thing .Text and a couple other blog tools now support is CommentRSS.” [scottwater.com/blog]
another interesting point...

i get a few emails about some asking what other web parts i may have...here's what i'm working on:
“document library explorer“ aka “doclib explorer“: this is going to be a windows explorer like view for all document libraries (security integrated) within a site. at first pass it will support wss only and not sharepoint root sites (maybe). some functionality will include showing the pending/rejected documents for those who have permissions, as well as showing which ones are checked out
“pop3 explorer“: this is a simple utility tool...not meant to be a pop3 client at all. i've been working on this one...

i've been working on minor enhancements/changes to feedreader and 2.1 is tentatively scheduled to include the following:
pre-authenticating user request to allow user authenticated proxy servers
moving the proxy server and cache settings to shared web part properties only
this is so that each user would not be required to change (or be able to) this information for more granular control over performance
changing the feed url listing in the toolpart to use newlines instead of separating each url by a “;“ character (note: some url's have a semicolon as a legitimate character)
adding the ability for the description to only display N number of...

wondered where the “allow iis to manage password” feature went for anonymous access on windows 2003 server machines?
here's an article about iis authentication and sub-authentication that may be helpful.

a recent eweek article points to a possible new flaw in a recent ie6 patch from ms. if you are a designer and especially utilize dhtml/javascript functions, you should be reading this article.
[Source: Nick Bradbury]

so for the past three days my entire family has been sick...no flu symptoms (thank goodness), but enough of all the good stuff you can read about on a nyquil bottle. this included my 1 year old daughter, and as new parents you could imagine the paranoia setting in my wife every time the little one caughs through the monitor...
i got up the nerve to go to my client's site today as there just were some things that could not be done through vpn (thank heavens for vpn). earlier in the week, one server crashed...hardware failure...a flicker of the windows...

ever want to automate your best practices auditing? now you can with sql server as well with this tool. it is in beta mode and i have not used it to speak to the validity, but it looks like it acts similar to fxcop where you set rules to check against.

responding to a post in a newsgroup, i thought this also might be helpful for others developing localized applications (if you didn't know the codes already)
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx

i finally broke down and purchased tivo. glad i did.
if you don't have a dvr yet, get one. i debated about the windows xp media center edition, but to me, a “real” pc just doesn't seem like the form factor for a home theater component...i could imagine myself getting mad staring at my tv and a clunky pc looking hardware somewhere nearby making fan noises...aside from that the cost of a “media center pc” was prohibitive. yeah, i could've used the msdn version of media center edition...but that would violate the license agreement now wouldn't it ;-)
i took a look...

from the pdc:
Web Parts for WSS/SPS today will work in WSS/SPS tomorrow
Web Parts for Whidbey tomorrow will work in the next releases of WSS/SPS
Web Parts for Whidbey tomorrow will also work in the current releases of WSS/SPS after an update is released

after getting back from PDC last week, i can tell you that sharepoint developers implementing web parts now is a *good* thing. after seeing whidbey at pdc, an interesting roadmap emerged with regard to web parts, asp.net 2.0 (whidbey) and windows sharepoint services. web parts is a core technology in the next version of the asp.net framework...providing a “portal framework” technology.
good news: all web parts currently developed for wss will continue to work under this framework!
better news: web parts developed under whidbey will work in wss!*
there is a slide deck presentation from pdc that you can download...i encourage all to...